POLS 261 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Joseph Nye, Security Dilemma, Mutual Assured Destruction
4 Apr 2016
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Definition: how states balance out power and security between themselves and other states. Structural realists: balance of power will emerge even in the absence of a conscious policy to maintain it (prudent statecraft i. e. policy) balance of power is natural and inevitable. Walz: balances of power result irrespective of intentions of any state. Classical realists: emphasize crucial role of state leaders and diplomats in maintaining balance of power. Definition: system operating in the absence of any central government. It does not imply chaos but, in realist theory, the absence of political authority. Relevance/example: realists believe with live in an anarchic state. Associated scholar: thucydides, machiavelli, morgenthau (classical) weber, rousseau, waltz, Definition: falls under realist thought; in an anarchic international system, one with no common central power, when one state seeks to improve its security it creates insecurity in the other states. Associated scholar: coined by john herz, idealist internationalism and the security dilemma.
